gray rev robert (6 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 200 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 200 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Original Blue Cloth Hardback. Zustand: Very Good Plus. First Edition. 1953. 200pp plus annual report and list of members to rear. Gilt titles to spine and gilt stamp to centre of front board, bevelled edges. 15 illustrations. Contents include: The Minutes of the Trades Maiden Hospital; James Ronaldson, Baker, Typefounder, Philanthropist; An addition to Laing's Chartulary of St. Giles; St. John Street: an early civic improvement; Convoys to the trade on the east coast of Scotland; Icehouses of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; The Notebook of Sir William Fettes Bart.; Charles II Lead equestrian statue, Parliament Sq.; William Forbes Gray: An appreciation. No inscriptions. Slight stain to edge of upper board, otherwise a very good copy. Heavyish book so extra may be needed for shipping to non-UK customers.

No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. A splendid antique engraved portrait, circa 1889. Mounted/matted and ready to frame. Attractive and decorative.

Second Edition. J.F. and C. Rivington, London. 1791. Full tan calf, gilt type to contrasting black label to spine. xii + 643 pages. V. sl. rubbing and bumping to extremities. Small worm damage to pre-lims at foot of gutter; inscription to front free end-paper; date added by hand in red beneath Roman numerals at foot of title-page.

Through the Cape Colony in 1848, with an Account of his Visit to the Island of St Helena, in 1849. First edition. Two folding maps. 16mo. Fine later red half morocco, spine gilt. viii, 227pp. London, Gray's diocese was so large, second in size only to Calcutta, that it could not be covered adequately in one journey. His first visit therefore concentrated on the Cape Colony. "The journal contains an excellent description of the state of the Colony in the middle of the nineteenth century, the author visiting a very large number of towns, villages and other settlements. He was present at the celebrated meeting of Sir Harry Smith with the Kaffir chiefs at King William's Town on October 7, 1848, and gives an account of proceedings" (Mendelssohn). Gray returned in 1850 and travelled to Natal, British Kaffraria and the Eastern Province. Mendelssohn I, pp627-8.